WAPO: Why go to the trouble of running for president to promote ideas that can't work?

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38. Delivery of care could be disrupted if a massive change in the system is implemented too quickly.

Anyone who says it won't be is not realistic about what that change involves.

[link:.org/research/publication/sanders-single-payer-health-care-plan-effect-national-health-expenditures-and-federal-and-private-spending|Initial independent analysis] shows that Sanders' MFA plan will cost taxpayers more and disrupt care more than is stated in the plan, which has an 8 year timeline for a complete changeover.

Anyone who promises that changing over to a single payer system can be quick, easy, affordable and have no negative impact on delivery of care doesn't understand how single payer or other UHC developed in other countries that have it.

HRC said that one of the mistakes they made in selling the idea of healthcare reform in 1993 was that they kept saying, "cover the unisured, cover the uninsured' without addressing directly how things would or wouldn't change for people who had insurance.

As we speak there is GOP viral messaging going around on social media aimed at older Medicare patients - "I worked years to earn my medicare benefits, and Democrats want to just give them to people who didn't even work a day in their life. Is that fair?"

The bulk of the population - Boomers - are flooding into Medicare. That messaging that single payer will dilute their benefits will work on them, unless there are details that are currently missing in MFA.

It may be a moot point anyway if the CBO score comes back on "MFA" as a dealbreaker. LBJ had to lie about what Medicare would cost in order to get it to pass. That's not a possibility now with the CBO.